I might bring my RV...Quote:
Originally Posted by CampbellCarl
...no need to wait Carl. :coffee-n-news:
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I might bring my RV...Quote:
Originally Posted by CampbellCarl
...no need to wait Carl. :coffee-n-news:
How old are those pics Bob?Quote:
Originally Posted by gn7
Here's that picture we were talking about earlier.
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This guy had all the chicks!
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I have no idea. I plagiarized them long time ago off some site long time ago. I think V driveboats. It reminds me a lot of my uncle's Stevens from around that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharp shooter
Lon Skinner. He was one of Rudy's first dealers, up somewhere in Oregon. He and John Sofilos in Redwood City, now in Clear Lake were his first 2 dealers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharp shooter
I'm pretty sure Lon was the second SK champion after Olsen in Cream Puff. Both Raysons. Then Towle won in 1963 and 64 with a Stevens.
You have to love the 1 + 2 bench seat in a Super Stock. The girl next to him is sitting in the divider that covered the V drive and "acted" as a bucket for the driver.
Olsen had the same seat arrangement in the first Cream Puff.
So Jerry, heres one I have never been able to figure out, and always managed to forget to ask Rudy. What is the thing on his helmet. You see the same thing on Rudy's helmet when he is sitting in the U9 Allison boat, and in some Salton Sea 500 action pics.
http://www.hotboat.com/frm/attachmen...1&d=1386909120
Yeah, that's a GREAT picture. 2 SKs and a drag boat running a circle race. In think that was a HOT BOAT race at the drags. Later they held HOT BOAT races at the ski races, which led to the start of the SS class. The boat cutting the inside is Rudy
Maybe woodpecker was just heading back to the ramp from making a drag pass and got caught in the photo...? Lol I don't have a clue on the helmet.Quote:
Originally Posted by gn7
Another good one.
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Marion Beavers Gummy's Ghost driven by Wayne Thompson
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Leroy Penhall in Hot Cinders You can bet your ass that's Bruce holding the boat.
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Keith Black 1963
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Olds first to go 100+mph .... must of been good for sales. .. 550hp doesn't seem like much for a blown BB alky motor.Quote:
Originally Posted by gn7
WAIT WAIT... I didn't get to see the VINTAGE chick floating in the hydro yet... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by gn7
MMMmmmmm natural puffies, what hair??? Oh, she does have a hairdoo... :yourock:Quote:
Originally Posted by gn7
Ron Larson was one of the guys that co drove the outboard when they won the 1967 Outboard Worlds in Havasu with 3 Mercs on the back of the GN hull. ?The other co driver was Micheal Reagan(Ronnie's son).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharp shooter
Larson's wife (EX) was the woman that took Rudy to the hospital when he died. One of the coolest ladies you could ever meet.
All of Ron's boats were "Quickies" Its Quick, Quicky, Quicky Too, Miss Quickly. I have no idea how many he owned, but it was a few thru the years.
They're in a lot of advertisements! Where's the outboard gn hull now?Quote:
Originally Posted by gn7
Phil Carter built a outboard from a GN hull when he worked there in the 70s. He owned a ski/marathon boat called Never Satisfied. Fitz drove it in the enduro once or twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharp shooter
Just before Rudy died a guy came in that had a full height 21 cruiser with a Merc 300 on it, with wrap around cocktail seating in the rear. Thing was cooool.
I guess he would build whatever you wanted if you asked.
If you're asking what happened to THAT hull, a guy was talking with ,me a couple years ago in Parker and described a 20ft he had, and it fit the that hull to a T. However, I since learned from a member on PB, that Rudy wasn't the first triple engine GN hull to win the Worlds at Havasu, 3 other guys from the south bay area had done it the year before in 1966 using a Rayson 20ft(19) with e outboards. I wasn't buying it, but he gave me the names and I found it in a Sport illustrated article on line.
I see if I can find it again. Kind of blue me away when I learned that.
He sure did! Check out the bufonts and suits! Sexy back in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharp shooter
Didn't take as long as I thought. Its easier once you know what you're looking for.
Not a lot of info, but enough to know that Rudy, Ron Larson and Michael Reagan didn't do it first, and that a Rayson outboard won the World outboard title 2 consecutive years.
http://si.com/vault/article/magazine...86/2/index.htm
Precilla was the queen of the bufont doQuote:
Originally Posted by Wendi
http://furcoatnoknickers.files.wordp...visx-large.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...y4lf4n-cU0Cz8s
Jan '67 Hot Boat classified ad.
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Doesn't seem like a lot of money, but my parents paid the same for our house in Culver City around the same time, That would buy you about 10 V8 Mustangs.
That was right after the Allison were banned. Ready to race, Yeah, but in what. They weren't even legal in marathons. You could set a unlimited kilo record with it. But it had already done that.
Of course you get 4 spare engines. Rudy told me he paid 50.00 in the crate for the one he ran. It cost him 4 times that to have the pistons machined that they cast for it at the shop Stock they are supercharged, and had lower compression, and superchargers weren't legal at the Salton Sea race. Probably why Patterson had spare engines. Blown and unblown.